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Column Connection

Opening context:
Box Columns, Perimeter Beams, Efficient Structure, Six-Foot Balcony, Frames as Thickened Edges

Conflict

The strength of a structure depends on the strength of its connections; and these connections are most critical of all at corners, especially at the corners where the columns meet the beams.

Resolution

Build connections where the columns meet the beams. Any distribution of material which fills the corner up will do: fillets, gussets, column capital, mushroom column, and most general of all, the arch, which connects column and beam in a continuous curve.

Closing context:
Ornament, Column Place